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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Catholic Connection covers Mass & Burial of Aborted Babies at Grotto

If you were not able to hear Teresa Tomeo in Monday and Tuesday morning's first (local Michigan) hour of Catholic Connection, you will want to hear both June 30th and July 1st. Go to the archives page and toggle it to June and choose the first hour for the 30th. Do the same for the July 1st program.

I had emailed Teresa, along with many others in Catholic media the photostory link of the Mass & burial of the aborted babies and she asked me to call in around 8:15am. She had Mary Lockwood on first, who is post-abortive and now a pro-life speaker. I was fine until I heard Mary talk about the impact of seeing that tiny coffin and I got so choked up I prayed Teresa wouldn't come to me just yet. But, as fate would have it, a few seconds later, I was on the air trying to think straight and get the lump out of my throat (I don't know how Teresa holds it together!).

After hearing about the photostory, Mary went to view them, then contacted me via email and we have shared some exchanges. Soon, she will have a website up at MaryLockwood.net. It is currently not functioning, but bookmark it and checkback later.

I didn't get to hear the national hour, but I often listen to archives of many programs on Ave Maria Radio as I'm working around the house. Internet radio and mp3's of the broadcasts are great in that you can listen anywhere in the world!

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron

St. John of the Cross

Dark Night of the Soul (2.2:3)...

"...the devil causes many to believe in vain visionsand false prophecies; and strives to make them presumethat God and the saints are speaking with them; and they often trust their own fancy. And the devil is also accustomed, in this state, to fill them with presumption and pride, so that they become attracted by vanity and arrogance, and allow themselves to be seen engaging in outward acts which appear holy, such as raptures and other manifestations. Thus they become bold with God, and lose holy fear, which is the key and the custodian of all the virtues; and in some of these souls so many are the falsehoods and deceits which tend to multiply, and so inveterate do they grow, that it is very doubtful if such souls will return to the pure road of virtue and true spirituality."